To start off with, thoughts on the Tower Hamlets EDL demo: clearly, overall the state was in control the whole day, which is never good news for us. There were three moments that were clear positives on the day: the solidarity showed by tubeworkers attempting to stop the EDL travelling – sadly, they weren’t able to keep them off the underground altogether, but the fact that the attempt was made was really positive, and definitely something to build on in future. The smashing of their coach in the evening was clearly an effective piece of direct action by anyone’s standards – if events like that spread, so carrying the EDL becomes a potential financial liability rather than a way to make money, they could find it a lot harder to find transport in future, and finally I’ve seen one report suggesting that there was a large squad of anarchists and local youths operating together in the evening, which sounds really good.

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